Made to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, October has taken on newsreel status: its famously excerptable scenes of the storming of the Winter Palace are said to be more spectacular and better attended than the actual event. But to see the film now is to re-experience the shock with which its experimentation was met on its initial release. (That release was held up while... More >

What is it to be Black in France? Black and French? Mariannes Noires follows seven French women of African and Caribbean descent. They are filmmakers, dancers, entrepreneurs and intellectuals whose Frenchness is rooted in a cultural space stretching from Metropolitan France to Africa and its mama diasporas.

Emile de Antonios Academy Awardnominated In the Year of the Pig makes the case against US intervention in Vietnam using an incendiary montage style. The film connects the bloody dots between politicians and business leaders, Western imperialists, and puppet governments, using a collage of rare archival footage from the French colonial period, film dispatches from the current conflict, and... More >

The Uncondemned tells the gripping story of the young international lawyers, activists, and survivors who did at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda what had never been done before: prosecute rape as an international war crime. A Q&A will follow the film with Kim Thuy Seelinger and Eric Stover of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law.

Speakers/Performers: Silvio Carrillo,
a filmmaker, producer, and the nephew of Berta Cáceres; Roxanna Altholz,
an international human rights lawyer, and author of the recent Dam Violence: The Plan That Killed Berta Cáceres

Join CLAS for a screening of the documentary on the legacy of Berta Cáceres, the indigenous Honduran environmental activist. After the screening, there will be a discussion featuring Silvio Carrillo, a filmmaker, producer, and the nephew of Berta Cáceres, and Roxanna Altholz, an international human rights lawyer, and co-author of the recent Dam Violence: The Plan That Killed Berta Cáceres.

Act and Punishment is a documentary that historically and culturally grounds the protest actions of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot. The film, which the Russian government has banned, juxtaposes interviews with members of Pussy Riot who tell their own stories alongside commentary by Russian art historians, curators, and artists who contextualize their work.

Act and Punishment is a documentary that historically and culturally grounds the protest actions of Pussy Riot. The film, which the Russian government has banned, juxtaposes interviews with members of Pussy Riot who tell their own stories alongside commentary by Russian art historians, curators, and artists who contextualize their work. The film makes extensive use of raw footage depicting Pussy... More >

Stricks documentary spotlights five veterans who took part in the US militarys infamous My Lai massacre, the incident that opened the publics eyes to the atrocities of the Vietnam War. With Frederick Wisemans Basic Training and Appalshops Whitesburg Epic.

This record of testimony about American war crimes may be the most important account we have of Americas tragic encounter with Vietnam. . . . Remains essential viewing (Chicago Reader). With Peter Gessners short Time of the Locust.